Laws of Nature
September 22, 2025
22 Then one was brought to Him who was demon-possessed, blind and mute, and He healed him, so that the blind and mute man both spoke and saw. 23 And all the multitudes were amazed and said, “Could this be the Son of David?“ 24 Now when the Pharisees heard it they said, “This fellow does not cast out demons except by Beelzebub, the ruler of the demons.“ 25 But Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. 26 If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand? 27 And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges. 28 But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you.
Matthew 12:22-28
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So…
Apart from Christ’s clear distinction between the essence of God and the essence of Satan, and …
apart from His logic, i.e. “What sense would it make for Me to be doing Satan’s work by undoing Satan’s work?“, and …
apart from understanding that ‘division’ refers to an element within the house that contradicts and fractures the house’s well-being and purpose, and …
apart from the concession that while a house in perfect order would not harbor such division, the reality is that there is no human house in perfect order and that division will undoubtedly exist, and …
realizing our house cannot be perfect – we resort to resolving division with compromise (or worse, by imposition).
Additionally, might we also infer, that at the heart of such division likely lays the essence of God and the essence of Satan (or the essence of the good and the essence of less than)?
*On June 16, 1858, as tumult multiplied across the nation, Abraham Lincoln delivered a speech to the Illinois Republican State Convention after garnering the Republican nomination to run for the U.S. Senate against Democratic incumbent Stephen A. Douglas. His address captured the essence of the tremendous chasm confronting the country. Advised by his circle that his chosen oration was too incendiary, he trusted both his logic and his conscience in spite of their hesitation and behind the wisdom of that New Testament admonition, “a house divided against itself cannot stand“, foretold that the matter at hand must and would be righted:
“… A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
It will become all one thing or all the other.”
And war came…
*https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/house.htm
While every man and every coalition of men invariably face conflict and disagreement, often dire, wisdom counsels that both perspectives to a conflict or a juxtaposition cannot be equally supported, equally valid or compromised. If this is so, would not division be a reasoned path?
[The essence of the Good and the essence of less than; Values; Compromise; Imposition; Sovereignty; …]
To be continued…